Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.
London news
- London Underground's historic headquarters redevelopment to include social housing
- Oh. My. Cod (we've made that joke too many times now): tinned fish restaurant launches in Soho
- Contactless payment hit London's railways this week. We were at Canary Wharf to video the launch
- You voted in swathes, and Brockley was crowned the winner of our street art festival vote
- The average London home now costs over half a million pounds
- Planned staffing cuts at tube stations revealed
- London Transport Museum are asking you to pick your favourite bus poster from the past 100 years
- For a brief moment in time, travelling on the Northern line almost became fun
Must-read articles
- How London's train terminals got their names
- Are you an 'Endie'? How London is failing people with modest incomes
- When London banned football, 700 years ago
- We came, we quizzed, we gave out a snorkel. Could you have won our floating Thames quiz?
- Where to find tasty Korean food in London
- The secret abodes of cab drivers — explore London's green cabbie shelters
- In advance of the vote earlier this week, we gave five reasons why Londoners should care about the Scottish referendum
- The history of London's royal wardrobe
- Who've you got to thank for pioneering the British supermarket? London, of course
- In the next of our 60 second videos, we explore a new phone box art installation at Royal Academy
- The non-Olympic side of Stratford explored in this week's podcast
Best pubs in London
We’re building a new website of the best pubs in London (mostly as voted for by Londonist readers). We still have a few areas to explore but we’re asking readers to take a look through what we have so far, and let us know what we’ve missed and where we need to visit next. This week we've added St Stephen's Tavern in Westminster and The Southwark Tavern in Borough.
Top reviews
- Characters and jokes aplenty, Kevin Bishop is a one-man funny machine in Fully Committed
- Young designers propose new ideas for society at Design Museum
- What The Play That Goes Wrong does right, at Duchess Theatre
- Dazzling, colourful, abstract photographs currently on display
- Richard Stone depicts romantic heroism in sculpture form
- It divided people then, it will divide people now: Ghost From A Perfect Place
- "A fascinating and measured political art installation": Philippine politics at Gasworks
- Handel's Xerxes opera transports you to Georgian Britain
- Cillian Murphy shines in new National Theatre production, Ballyturk
- Another stellar stunner from the Royal Observatory, with Astronomer Photographer of the Year 2014
Things to do
- Once you've finished your Sunday morning cuppa tea, come and visit us for riverine merriment on board HMS President today
- Get inside the historic Houses of Parliament for less this recess, with 20% off tickets
- A festival of music, Doc'n Roll, comes to Hackney Picturehouse
- Wimbledon BookFest brings big literary names to south west London next month
- And there's even more lit at ArchWay With Words festival
- Celebrate fresh new art and get 50% off tickets to The Other Art Fair in October
- You can now book tickets to the London NYE fireworks. Warning: it'll cost you £10
- Like cheese toasties? 'Course you do. Then you might like this competition
- Or enter our competition to join us at our 10th birthday party! We'll bring the party poppers
Food and Drink: London's Finest
London has plenty to offer on the food and drink front — from Spanish to spritz, happy hours to high-up haunts, late-night drinks to mid-morning brunches. We've rounded up all our favourites by section, so you'll never be at a loss for wining and dining in the capital again.
See our Best Food And Drink In London section here.
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